WI: Gary Hart goes on 60 Minutes?

What if Gary Hart took a different course in handling the sex scandal that derailed his campaign and decided to admit to his affair and asking his wife for forgiveness. He and his campaign reaches out to CBS News and asks them to do an in-depth interview on 60 Minutes where he and his wife Lee address his infidelity and their previous separations.

Does doing this allow him to stay in the race for the rest of 1987 and into the 1988 Democratic primaries? Could he still win the nomination and defeat George Bush in the general election?
 
. . . Could he still win the nomination . . .
I like the timeline of Hart making a real run at it, and maybe even having a largely successful presidency and bending the path on middle-class job loss. But . . . I think Hart had a harder hand to play, for example,

1) Hart’s probable affair was pretty much right there in real time, and

2) Lee Hart had a sinus infection in which it looked as though she had been crying, or even worse, as if he had hit it.

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LATER EDIT: Written a couple of months after he dropped out in 1987, this Vanity Fair article by Gail Sheehy presents the case that Gary grew up in an overly strict Nazarene church and that he oscillated between believing himself to be unworthy and believing himself to be so worthy that the normal standards didn’t apply to him.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.va...09/gary-hart-failed-presidential-campaign/amp
 
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